You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it.

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.